Music: Philadelphia's Bye

Between Chicago's Samuel Insull
and Philadelphia's Mary Louise Curtis Bok there was never much in
common except that they both backed grand opera. For reasons which
everyone knows. Chicago will have no grand opera this winter.

Last week the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company also suspended
performances for a year, but its reason was not quite Chicago's.
Advance sales were bad. but it was also announced that Conductor
Leopold Stokowski wanted an off-year to perfect a new form of "drama
with music" for 1933-34. The Curtis-Bok fortune is far, far from
collapse but...